Vikings Territory: Sansevere: Chuck Foreman Wouldn't Get Into A Huddle With Kirk Cousins

Press release from Vikings Territory:

2021-08-29

If Vikings legend Chuck Foreman was playing today, he would refuse to play with Kirk Cousins.

Foreman, who is vaccinated, won’t get close up with Cousins, who is not. And it’s not just Cousins. Foreman has an issue with all players, Vikings or otherwise, who have chosen not to be vaccinated against COVID 19.

“It’s my opinion, but I wouldn’t get in the huddle with Cousins. The guy’s not vaccinated. So, I think it would be a problem for me, personally.”

“I’m sticking with my prediction of a 6-11 season for the Vikings,” Foreman told the Pioneer Press. “The Vikings certainly have the talent to have a winning season. However, I think with what’s going on with COVID and most of the guys in the leadership roles not taking the vaccine, I don’t know how you manage that.

Among those problems, Foreman told the newspaper, is that teams can be forced to forfeit games due to unvaccinated players spreading COVID.

Foreman said he understands that many people object to being vaccinated and that it some work environments it wouldn’t be an issue. But not in football, not in the NFL.

To illustrate his issue with getting into a huddle with Cousins, Foreman recalled when he played and would be tackled.

In other words, after a play, opponents and teammates still are breathing hard and he is concerned an infected player potentially could spread COVID in the huddle.

“This is going to be (Mike) Zimmer’s toughest coaching job. Now, he’s got to worry if one of the guys is going to be exposing themselves to people, or whether their family has been exposed to somebody. Then they’ve got to come to practice. There’s so many different things that aren’t the norm. So, there are problems. That’s not really a part of the normal part of the game.”

(Bob Sansevere hosts the daily podcast “The BS Show” that also is broadcast on radio stations in Duluth (WDSM), Hibbing (WNMT), St. Cloud (WBHR) and Worthington (the RadioWorks Network). He also co-hosts the weekly JimBob Sports Jamboree with Vikings legend Chuck Foreman and Fox 9’s Jim Rich; that show can be heard on about a dozen radio stations across Minnesota. And he will be returning to the KQ Morning Show, where he spent more than 30 years, to give weekly Vikings updates.)

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